The core curriculum is supplemented by three theme courses — one in the natural sciences, the humanities and the social sciences.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Alfred L. Kroeber

I expect this is some second great schism, where two humanities will live, apart but parallel.

Dave Eggers -- The Circle

No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him — its peaceful enjoyments no charm.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Where are you in your Latin humanities?

Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

He asks more about Cedric’s classes, and then they talk about English and the humanities versus science and math.

Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

Winsett did not invite people to his house; but he had once pointed it out to Archer in the course of a nocturnal stroll, and the latter had asked himself, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals.

Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

He felt the weight of his ignorance,—not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet.

W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk

Deo went on reciting, not realizing he was murmuring aloud: "He felt the weight of his ignorance, — not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet."

Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

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Holds a chair in the humanities at Fordham.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

It was a mixed humanities and social sciences course and he stuck it out for eighteen months.

Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer

He returned to the institution where he had been a pupil and was given a position as prefect, a supervisor of the students, a teacher of philosophy and humanities.

Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

As a schoolboy he had been expelled for helping political prisoners escape; he had then tried several art schools, but in the end had become a student of the humanities.

Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

One can discern, in his ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him; his delight in troops of friends, in large hospitality, in cheerful giving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays

Baba smiled on, the way he did when Hector came by the week before to see him, the way he did when I showed him my application to the College of Arts and Humanities at San Francisco State.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

It was called the New York Public Library of Humanities and Social Sciences.

James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

Welcome to Humanities for First Year Apprentices.

Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan

All this had been why I walked blindly up to Humanities Hall instead of returning directly to my dorm.

Alice Sebold -- Lucky

The new series, with a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was filmed throughout the country during 2003.

Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

The traitorous Humanities instructor sat unblinking in his A MIDNIGHT TEMPEST — 425 chair while a baka clung to the white, tangled beard that had grown during his imprisonment.